The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-07-13
UNMASONiC.

The Grand Master of the Masonic Order
of Missouri Declares That Saloon
Keepers Must Quit the Business or the
Order.
The following is n portion of the
edict recently issued by Grand Master
George K Hunt to the Worshipful
Master wardens and brethren of the
several Masonic lodges in MiSsouri:
'In 1882 the Grand lodge declared saloon
keeping to be un-Masonic. in these words: Re
SOtCed That the business Of saloonkeeping 10
hereby declared to be a Masonic offence
THE bylaw above quoted applies TO the bust.
ness OF saloon-keeping as well as to drunken
ness, gambling etc. II must, therefore, be en-
forced against saloon-keeping Masons. The
lodges shall enforce the Masonic law against all
un. Masonic conduct says the bylaw. Saloon
keeping is hereby declared TO be a Masonic
offence says the Grand lodge. Therefore all
lodges shall and must enforce the law against
saloon-keeping members OF the order in Mis-
souri, The Grand lodge has spoken. There
must be no evading OF the law because the
Grand lodge has said ii shall be enforced.
Liquorselling for drinking purposes is sternly
forbidden and can not be tolerated by the
lodges. To permit members OF our lodges to
continue a business declared to be un-Masonio
is TO allow an open defiance Of the Grand lodge
and its bylaws. This the lodges must not
wrong by exempting such as thus violate and
defy the law. The saloon-keeping Mason would
thus be made a privileged character, and al
lowed TO do, with impunity, what the Grand
lodge has declared TO be un-Masonic. They are
exempted from the penalty of law they are
violating every day, while drunkenness caused
by them, is pronounced gross, un-Masonlc con-
duct We punish those guilty Of 'habitud
,drunkenness' while we spare the saloon-keep-
| ords III, WHOSE business IL is TO make drunk
and .oraa, 20 no. no' ia" TO punish a fallen brother
| 'N |Sh INC Onc NlO Creed foil. Th6
] Grand lodge has declared il to be a strange rio
! that would punish the victim and not the vic.
| timber. Wv
THE Grand lodge has put itself on record
against saloon-keeping or selling liouor for
urlnkihg purposes, declaring the business to be
un-Masohlc. IL has affirmed the law TO be good
ana right in every case where LODGES have ax
pelIeu or suspended the violators OF the law
. iue Sranu lodge has suspended several par
ues' when the lodges failed to convict them.
wnen inc evidence was plain aud strong The
charters OF such lodges have been arrested.
Inc law has been in existence so long that mona
may plead either ignorance or want Of time IN
chahge their business Their continuance in n
BUSINESS declared to be un-Masonic is omen de-
nance TO the law. The Grand lodge has LAID
down the rule that any member affected bv our
Jaw mas the opportunity to quit the business or
quit Masonry -
''The Grand lodge at its last session ordered
tnat the secretaries of lodges report IN the
Brahu secretary, in the annual returns the
names or all Masons who may be violating the
law as saloon-keepers. You are hereby directed
70 see TINS order obeyed and the name of every
such person placed in your reports Blanl
spaces are provided for this purpose on the re-
turns. Va ~
WIN the law and the purposes of the Grand
$50 iully known, IL remains for the lodges
" say .hat tne laws and edicts shall be enforced
asainst uh-Masonic conduct. II the lodges do
not enforce Them the Grand lodge will do IL
The Grand lodge says IL shall he done The
lodges nave no election. They are not Judges
VI the law. The Grand lodge made the law.
NC suooroihates are not TO Judge the law but
ere !uuges only OF the points as charged against
Lhe Vloiators OF the law. Remember that tho
-, Gnu ,ouso mas waited long and patiently on
.ne 'iolators OF the law TO change their bust
ness railing 10 do So the law shall be en-.
orceu' ana they must quit the business or quit
u"sohry' every member OF the order prom
seu' "hen received, TO abide by the law. A
'onstant violation Of the law is q Reputation
= the oolgation taken. Such must change
Iuit Masonry " N'S
rhe masters OF all lodges in this iurisdic.
ron are hcreoy enJoined and directed TO SEQ =,
hat thls circular is read in the lodges, asa
nat lne law OF the Grand lodge is duly enforced
'spg the matters and things herein spe-
Inc deputy grand masters OF the several
ls'rlcts In this grand Jurisdiction are hereby
harsed with the special duty OF seeing that the
s wa OF thls circular are observed ana car.
gu INTO enect by the various lodges unaer
'en emeiai control. They will report any dis.
'saiu OF these laws In their lodges, conesrn.ne
a'Masonle conduct ana furnish ma All mIi
lrtieulsrs m each case"
THE Bible does not says Woe unto
Im TINT nuliafh H. k..